4 avocados

1 banana

4 dates

1/2 cup cacao powder

1/2 cup raw carob powder

3 cups homemade almond milk*** (or water would probably work)

Peeled ginger piece the size of 1/2 of the palm of your hand (requires a pretty big piece ginger–if you like ginger, I recommend adding to taste as you blend)

Optional–mint leaves (approximately 7-8 leaves)

Put everything in a high speed blender and blend (k-tech total blender setting 3 or vitamix, run then stir with spoon, then run again)–Voila!

Add fruit to top, picture has blueberries, kiwi, mint

BONUS: If everything is organic, you can take the peeled kiwi skins, ginger skins, and a few mint leaves and infuse in water for a refreshing drink later…[green lid with the plastic pouch to hold fruit/ginger bits for infusion that attaches to a wide-mouthed mason jar came from Target]

Do you know that most of those nut milks in cartons have like 2 almonds per container? I made a promise to myself that I wouldn’t buy packaged milk when its so easy to make. Keep a half a glassful of almonds soaking in water on the countertop. You can put them in the fridge after soaking for 8 hours and keep there for a few days THEN make below recipe if you’re busy.

***Homemade Almond Milk Recipe:

7-12 almonds per one cup of water, soaked at least 4 hours or overnight

Strain soaked almonds and put in blender (no you don’t need to take off skins, no you don’t need to remove almond bits from milk when you finish blending)

See the above BEFORE and AFTER weight loss pictures of Dr. Josh

How did Dr. Josh lose weight? Read these stories* to find out:

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https://drjosh.com/coherent-mind-tip-of-the-wellness-triangle/#commentsFri, 24 Jun 2016 19:58:01 +0000https://drjosh.com/?p=97Read More]]>One often-asked question when we present is what EXACTLY does the Coherent Mind Tip mean? (The Wellness Triangle is from Dr. Dan Siegel’s triangle of well-being and represents Optimal Mental Health in Heidi’s book, Caregiver Stress: Neurobiology to the Rescue.)

For us the term “mind” means the part of your awareness that is able to focus and hold attention. It is the driver of the car, whereas your body (e.g. your brain, central nervous system, muscles and bones) is the car. We rarely spend more than a few minutes defining “Coherent Mind” because our aim as educators is to help focus your attention around your thoughts not within them in an attempt to encourage ever-widening circles of brain integration.

Consider the following quote by David Hawkins:

“From thinking that we are not our minds, we begin to see that we have minds, and that it is the mind that has thoughts, beliefs, feelings and opinions. Eventually we may arrive at the insight that all our thoughts are merely borrowed from the great database of consciousness and were never really our own. Prevailing thought systems are received, absorbed, identified with, and, in due time, replaced by new ideas that have become fashionable with us. As we place less value on such passing notions, they lose their capacity to dominate us, and we experience progressive freedom of, as well as from, the mind. This in turn ripens into anew source of pleasure; fittingly, the pleasure of existence itself matures as one ascends the scale of consciousness.” —From “Power vs Force”

Cultivating the Coherent Mind Tip means we grow in our resiliency and brain integration by putting distance between our thoughts and feelings. Sometimes this is seen as a spiritual practice such as in the above quote; as medical experts, we mainly focus on the science of mindfulness. Whatever your lens, though, the Coherent Mind Tip is about freeing yourself from your thoughts in order to better control your reality…or to better drive your car.

First you might ask, “What the HECK is relational neuroscience?”

Dr. Helman refers to it as “rocket science” encouraging that learning it “is not rocket science!” Rocket science has to do with the relational nature of the brain–from attachment development for a baby ages 6 months to 2 years to studies showing that if people stop all social groups at retirement they have a 12% increased risk of death. We are relational creatures profoundly influenced by our environment.

We combine the fascinating science of the brain with intimacy during educational lectures about: grief, financial stress, sex education, dating safety, dementia, caregiver stress, and much more. See our list of common presentations under Speaking Topics.

Heidi and Dr. Helman combine the best of two worlds: she is a seasoned social worker and psychotherapist, he has decades of experience in emergency medicine and finance. They have additional training in anti-aging medicine, nutrition, and mindfulness. They give presentations together, introducing a new paradigm for public speaking.